MeownsterHunter

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    5:58 AM, Tuesday April 20th 2021

    Hello Eikyu, congratulations on completing lesson one. I, Meownsterhunter will be critiquing your work.

    Lines:

    Your lines are confident , have a defined starting point .These are off to a fine start. Fraying on the end is expected , nothing to worry about there. A little bit of arching on the longer lines - which can be fixed by trying to arch consciously to the opposite direction .

    Ghosted lines are accurate and confident ! Good job on these.

    One thing i would like to point out that you are not plotting the points when bisecting the planes on the ghosted planes exercise.

    Ellipses:

    Fantastic work on the ellipses! They are smooth , drawn through 2 times and most importantly confident. One thing to keep in mind though some ellipses are going out of bound . Other than that I am very impressed on your table of ellipses.

    Again fine work on the ellipses in plane exercise.

    Your funnels do have some common minor axes alignment issue. you can read more about that :https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned .

    Boxes:

    The plotted and rough perspective looks great. One thing to remember when doing a one point perspective exercise is to realize that all of your horizontal lines should be parallel to the horizon line and all of your verticals should be straight up and down .

    Your rotated box exercise turned out pretty well. Four boxes on the lower right corner have a bit of rotation issue and are deformed . Other than that you have done pretty good job.

    On the organic perspective you could have changed the dimensions of boxes a bit more rapidly to give it a bit more depth -which you have done your second page.

    Overall this was a solid submission. I think you understand most of the concepts these lessons are trying to convey. Good luck on the 250 box challenge.

    Next Steps:

    Feel free to start "The 250 Box Challenge"

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    5:07 PM, Sunday April 18th 2021

    YOh o.. Zeroz

    MeownsterHunter here. I will be critiquing your submitted home work .

    Lines:

    Your straight lines are confident, does not fray at starting point. The longer lines do arch a bit , this might happen mostly because of not using the shoulder pivot. If you are using shoulder pivot and the lines still arches you might arch the line consciously in opposite direction to balance out.

    Curved lines are a bit wobbly .This can happen when you try to make very precise marks. In drawabox you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.

    Fantastic work on the ghosted planes. You plotted the dots for all of the lines.

    Ellipses:

    You are doing a good job drawing through your ellipses in the ellipses table .A few ellipses in ellipses table are deformed. you can fix this by drawing from the shoulder and focusing on consistent smooth ellipse shapes .Accuracy tends to come with mileage and consistent practice .

    In the ellipses in plane section you are drawing your ellipses more than 2-3 times.

    On the funnels section some of your ellipses have tilted minor axes. https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/notaligned . One thing you could have done with these is start with a narrower degree ellipse in the center and then widen the degrees of the ellipses as they move outwards in the funnel. Like here :https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/13/step3

    Boxes:

    Your plotted perspective is fine .

    On the rough perspective exercise you have plotted two vanishing points instead of one.

    Also Keep in mind that since this is one point perspective all the hight lines are parallel to each other and are perpendicular to the horizon line and all of your width lines should be parallel to the horizon . Another thing to keep in mind that all the boxes/ straight lines you draw should be dotted -then ghosted - then drawn.

    You have done a good job on the rotated box . This is a great exercise to come back to after a few lessons to see how much your spatial thinking ability has improved. One thing to keep in mind that the boxes in the outermost row and column are not rotating. You can read more about that :https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/notrotating

    Your organic perspective exercises are looking pretty good. It will become even better after completing 250 box challenge.

    Overall this was a solid submission .

    Next Steps:

    Feel free to move onto The 250 Box Challenge

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    3:42 PM, Sunday April 18th 2021

    Thank you for your critique .

    9:08 AM, Wednesday August 12th 2020

    Thanks for your critique. I will them keep in mind while doing warmups .

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